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I've read through the Bible cover to cover three times. Amplified, NIV, and New King James with a copy of Strongs.
I'm an atheist now.
I understand the reaction. The Bible is sold by a lot of churches as “the word of God”, and if it's the case, God is a lying asshole. But nowhere in the Bible it is written that the Bible is the word of God; according to the Bible the word of God is Jesus-Christ so… it may not be the right approach according to the Bible itself.
I love the Bible, I read it (almost) every day, I use it as a guide in my material and spiritual lives, I studied the story of its interpretation in the university, I even thought about making that my speciality. Yet I don't understand how someone could believe in biblical inerrancy. It's very clearly a human work, written by error-prone normal humans. I believe that God spoke to its redactors, but it's still a human work. And ours is (according to me) to listen to the voice of God through the human form; and that's why we have the Church, as it's not something one can do alone.
I like your view.
Though I don't do church anymore, either they worship the current incarnation of the antichrist or they're lead by weak leaders who aren't willing or capable to do what it takes to be a great leader in my experience.
We tried a few liberal / LGBTQ lead churches and I just couldn't continue to participate. My wife kept going longer than I did but she hasn't gone in a few years.
What made you an atheist?
The Bible is pretty fallible when looking at it objectively IMO. But the nail in the coffin was contrasting what the Bible asks of us vs what Christianity does. The tyrannical cheeto is as close to the antichrist as we've seen and they're all gaga for him as an example. But I've been disillusioned since Obama's first election. The terrible and false things "the church" and soon to be former church friends said about him was next level bullshit. Yet when I highlighted that the Bible clearly says the worst relationship we have with man is our relationship with Christ landed in def ears.
I think they are saying reading those books are the reason.
Not op, but for me it was the fact that the supposedly ineffable word of God turned out to be pretty effible
It wasn't the first step towards losing faith, or even the last, but it was pretty troubling to a young me